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Re: Screen reader indications of underlined or strike-through text

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Jun 18, 2014 2:46PM

JAWS does announce STRONG, EM, B, I, DEL, INS, STRIKE in Internet
Explorer on the sample page
http://files.paciellogroup.com/blogmisc/strong.html
In Firefox it does not announce STRONG and BOLD however.
I tested it with JAWS 14 and 15 using Proof Reading (attributes)
scheme. (Some users might prefer this scheme as a default!)
So perhaps this is an indication that browsers too are lacking ... as
Steve suggested?

Thanks,
Sailesh


On 6/18/14, Whitney Quesenbery < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Lucy,
>
> Agree.
>
> I just meant that if you have a document that relies on an unusual command
> or setting, it might be nice to set up a page that explains the settings in
> the popular screen readers. I'm thinking of how the BBC (and other) site
> accessibility includes some general help for useful, but less known
> settings.
>
>
> Whitney
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Yes I agree but the keyboard commands for how to do the same things
>> differ
>> in each screen reader. I was not saying it was good that they are
>> different but can't help tell them by telling them how to do it in one
>> when they are using the other smile.
>>
>> Lucia Greco
>> Web Accessibility Evangelist
>> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
>> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>>
>>
>>